On Mar 3, 2014 9:39 PM, "Adam Williamson" <awilliam(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Mon, 2014-03-03 at 11:05 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Reindl Harald wrote:
> > yes it is a hack but better than fake version numbers to
> > satisfy RPM and that is *the* reason epoch exists at all
>
> +1
>
> That Ubuntu-style apples-101.reallyoranges versioning is misleading and
> against Fedora packaging guidelines.
Yeah, I'd agree with Harald and Kevin in this case: 1.0-0.2.999 is a
horrible version string, I wouldn't have recommended it even if it had
been possible. This kind of situation really is the one in which it *is*
correct to use Epoch - when upstream versioning goes backwards, and
upstream cannot change it.
Thanks all! Another piece of wisdom about RPM packaging best practices has
now been stowed away in my rapidly decaying neurons :)